ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,162, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink only states for wireless communication" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a network unit, a scheduling request associated with uplink resources, receiving, from the network unit, an indicator indicating the UE to enter a d...